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The stories clothes tell : voices of working-class Japan
\"This compelling social history tells the stories of ordinary people in modern Japan. Tatsuichi Horikiri spent a lifetime searching out old items of clothing and oral history accounts to shed light on those who used these items. He reveals not only the often desperate lives of these people, he illuminates their hopes, aspirations, and human values\"--Provided by publisher.
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Working skin
Since the 1980s, arguments for a multicultural Japan have gained considerable currency against an entrenched myth of national homogeneity. Working Skin enters this conversation with an ethnography of Japan's \"Buraku\" people. Touted as Japan's largest minority, the Buraku are stigmatized because of associations with labor considered unclean, such as leather and meat production. That labor, however, is vanishing from Japan: Liberalized markets have sent these jobs overseas, and changes in family and residential record-keeping have made it harder to track connections to these industries. Multiculturalism, as a project of managing difference, comes into ascendancy and relief just as the labor it struggles to represent is disappearing. Working Skin develops this argument by exploring the interconnected work of tanners in Japan, Buraku rights activists and their South Asian allies, as well as cattle ranchers in West Texas, United Nations officials, and international NGO advocates. Moving deftly across these engagements, Joseph Hankins analyzes the global political and economic demands of the labor of multiculturalism. Written in accessible prose, this book speaks to larger theoretical debates in critical anthropology, Asian and cultural studies, and examinations of liberalism and empire, and it will appeal to audiences interested in social movements, stigmatization, and the overlapping circulation of language, politics, and capital.
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24 Bars to Kill
The most clearly identifiable and popular form of Japanese
hip-hop, \"ghetto\" or \"gangsta\" music has much in common with its
corresponding American subgenres, including its portrayal of life
on the margins, confrontational style, and aspirational
\"rags-to-riches\" narratives. Contrary to depictions of an
ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, gangsta J-hop gives
voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion
experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill
offers a fascinating ethnographic account of this music as well as
the subculture around it, showing how gangsta hip-hop arises from
widespread dissatisfaction and malaise.
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Grassroots Pacifism in Post-war Japan
Grassroots Pacifism in Post-war Japan presents new material on grassroots peace activism and pacifism in two major groups active in the post-World War II peace movement - workers and housewives.
Mari Yamamoto contends that the peace movement, which was organized in tandem with other activities to promote democratic, economic and humanitarian issues, served as a popular lever which helped to eliminate feudal remnants that lingered in Japanese society and people’s individual attitudes after the war, thereby modernizing the political process and the outlook of the ordinary Japanese.
The book includes extensive primary material such as letters, essays, memoirs and interviews. Specialists in Japanese history, peace studies and women’s studies especially will appreciate the richness of the text supporting Yamamoto’s narrative of how workers’ and women’s political awareness developed under the influence of organizational and ideological interests and contemporary events.
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Japanese Working Class Lives
This ethnographic study examines the lives of Japanese workers in small firms and analysis their experiences of working life, leisure and education. This unique case study of the Shintani Metals Company illustrates the ways in which employees lives extend beyond their work.Japanese Working Class Lives provides a valuable alternative view of working life outside the large corporations. Roberson demonstrates that the Japanese working class is more diverse than Western stereotypes of be-suited salary-men would suggest.
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Yokohama street life
This book is a one-man ethnography that seeks to understand life at the bottom of Japanese society through the personality of day laborer and street-philosopher Kimitsu Nishikawa. Through interviews with Kimitsu, Tom Gill analyzes life in the Yokohama slum district of Kotobuki-a district in which welfare has come to replace labor.
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